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Considering that i would like this animation to be child-friendly, complicated forms of imagery just wouldn’t work in delivering the message. you’ve gotta know your audience to know how to write the message.

the simplist way to communicate is through shapes and after doing some research into child frendily shows in contemporary times, the visual styles didnt appel to me all that much..

So i took a step into the past and i remembered one show which fits in with what I’m looking for…

Mr. Men for those who don’t know, is a children’s program which showcased radical personality traits and embodied those traits into characters. The designs were simple so that producers can spend more time on the characters actions, which in turn represented that character better.

I believe that they are remaking the series actually…. the point is; the designs for representing characters were really simple and in turn, i would like to replicate this in my animation. My designs in my previous post, were inspired by this source and i think it will continue to steer the visual essence of my piece as well as the message i would like to deliver in my project.

In terms of converting my subject of representation into the medium, I plan to create a animation of stereotypes with narrating sounds. Did a small animation test to show how the visual style will look.

Also, to help with my technique of animation, I might see if I can convert this next video that I filmed in the British museum into a motion piece, if time is kind to me.

Threads is a narrative that was created by Graphic artist Kate Evans that focuses on the take’s interactions with some of the many refugees that have made their way to Calais, France, and are trying to move to England. Threads captures some of the experiences and events that these refugees had while in france and evans used threads to document the simple realisim of the topic.

Thank the Lord that she came in for a talk and in-depth analysis about her new book, which ive happen to have recorded.

This talk has lead me into thinking of a new way of approaching this self-initiated project. Focusing more on capturing people’s character rather then trying to represent them on the page necessarily. Maybe its not about the character, maybe its about the experience of that said character in question..